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Same fate as everything else
It used to be free to download music and as a creator who uploaded music for people to use for free I hate to say it’s very monetized now. It’s only $10 a month but as someone who only needs sheet music once a month at most, usually less, i’d have to pay $10 per song or $180 for a year which is insane for sheet music unless you’re making money off it or something (I wouldn’t imagine any of it is commercial free anyway). It is also now riddled with ads and even pop up tab ads. I know something happened with the company a few years back. I don’t remember the details but it has been by far for the worse. The music program itself is still great and free and improving so I also understand the need for monetiziation, but I’m rating the app which is effectively the website, and there should be means other than subscriptions to allow people to more so pay for what they actually use.Show lesstororoot
…yes
This is by far the best sheet music app I’ve seen, a lot of these are well made but there isn’t enough people writing music to have many options. It’s always especially difficult for people who play less listened to instruments, i play flute and piccolo and can’t say it’s the easiest to find music when I can only find stuff for piano, I can still play the song with piano sheet music most of the time, but it’s usually really low and annoying, so I’d much prefer to just be able to find flute and piccolo music which is much easier in this app, I’ve found some really obscure stuff here that I didn’t think existed, there’s a lot of options,… plus I love that you can make it play the song, very convenientShow lesscharity🍍🥓🍩
Please, use songsterr for tabs instead of this garbage.
My friend wrote me up some tabs and put them on this app so I could learn his songs, downloaded this and it’s absolute mess. The tab in question has all the lead & rhythm guitars, as well as my bass part, so it defaults to zoomed way out, so much so that the numbers are so tiny they start pixelating. I have to zoom in so far to even be able to see the numbers that I can only read about a bar or two of music at a time, and when I play through the song every time it transitions to the next slide of tabs the app zooms way back out to where I can’t even read anything again. Also there is no way I can rewind or skip through specific sections of songs, only the option to start the whole song over from the beginning. You’d think that the bar at the bottom of the screen would allow you to rewind a slide or two? Why is it only there to show me how many slides of tabs I have gotten through? This has been driving me up the wall trying to learn these songs. I WOULD NOT be using this app if it wasn’t my only choice, and from my experiences I'm sorry to say I cannot recommend. If you’re a musician looking for an actual good tab app, please go to songsterr instead of this garbage.Show lessEmoTrash69420
Developer Response
Hello, thank you for your message! We are sorry for the trouble you’ve encountered and would like to investigate the issue. Could you contact us at support@musescore.com, please? Best regards, MuseScore Support teamVery Buggy
I am a MuseScore user and have been since 2014, and donated towards development of the mobile app when it was in unusable testing phases. I love this website but the app has been utterly disappointing. Half of the time I try to use the app it gives error messages or just crashes. Most developers would have fixed these issues or at least suppressed them, but the MuseScore developers have had bugs in the app for as long as I’ve used the app. That was around 3 years for the full release version, not including development. The community scores aren’t great and there is no good system of finding the quality scores that are so rare. You have to pay your way into downloading scores or accessing professionally done sheet music, which is NOT included in the useless Pro subscription. While this app may be better than most other free sheet music apps, it has its overdose of problems and issues. -Love KaidenSkinnerShow lessgreenbird4705
Developer Response
Hi greenbird4705! Thank you for sharing your MuseScore experience with us. If you can give us some feedback on the rating system, we would gladly take it into account because we always strive to improve, and that information would be really useful. You can send a message to our support team at support@musescore.com. I would like to add that all MuseScore users can download and print scores related to compositions in the Public Domain and Original compositions written by MuseScore users (they are marked as Original on the musescore.com website) for free for an unlimited amount. Also, on our website, you can download scores in formats like MIDI, MusicXML, PDF, MP3, and mscz. And if a user needs a Pro score, we offer them a trial subscription to test out the app and decide if they need Pro or not.Great service but the bugs are infuriating!
I’m not one to write reviews, but I just had to vent my frustration with this app. There are two main bugs that completely derail the process of following along with the sheet music.
First, the line that tracks the notes can easily glitch and set itself off rhythm. It’s then useless trying to visually read the music while it’s playing. In fact, it can become harder because the tracker can throw you off.
Secondly, if you tap your screen the wrong way, it pops you back up to the top of the page. Why would I ever need that happen? I’m trying to scroll along with the music while I sing or play, and it instead throws me back to the top. In what situation would I EVER want that feature? How has that ever helped anyone? I then lose my place and have to viciously try to scroll back down and find where I was. This is almost always impossible when part of a larger group that is singing along with you. Now I’m stuck without my music and have to pretend I haven’t completely lost my place.
It’s a good service. It provides my club with a lot of really well transposed music. But every time I use the app I want to throw my phone across the room.Show lessAAC0813
Huge scam
Just know if you accidentally forget to cancel your subscription. you will NOT receive a refund and they will only give you 35% back. Should’ve listened to the reviews I highly doubt even a actual person emails you. Someone on here from a couple of years ago said that if you revive a email from Paula then it’s probably not a real person. Guess who I received an email from? You must be working so hard Paula responding to everyone’s emails? I will definitely warn my friends and other people of this app. The developers don’t care at all about their customers. You would think a great, nice, and professional thing to do would be to let users know before doing a free trial that you don’t get your money back. Not hide it under 3 pages worth of terms of service. I even told them I couldn’t afford to pay it and that I just did it to get sheet music my piano teacher wanted and it was my fault smh…Show lessNoahGamigz
I Love this app so much!❤️
I usually don’t do reviews for apps but this one deserves one. I love that You can listen to the music you pick and the music sheets are wonderfully done. I could find almost any music in this app. It’s hard to find good music sheets on google but this app did the job. I noticed they also updated it and are now offering lessons in the app! I got the pro thing and I get to have more access to other features and I love it! If there is a music I like but it’s played together with another instrument I can just cancel it out with the pro features. Thank you for this app and I looking forward to updates!Show lessSophia7112
Predatory Monetization
This app was once excellent and I would have given it 5 stars, but it has been updated recently and introduced a “Pro” feature for $50 a year. What were once free features available to all (things like offline viewing, auto scrolling the sheet during playback etc) are now locked behind the Pro subscription as well as now serving ads to free users. I would have happily paid money for this app in its previous state (I can’t remember if it was paid or not originally - I have used it for a while now), but I cannot support the decision to lock absolutely basic quality of life features behind a yearly $50 subscription. I am giving it 2 stars, since it does work quite well, but I would have easily given it 5 if it were not for this predatory monetization practice. In its current form I cannot recommend it to anyone. Find a different sheet music app to give your money to.Show lessProxene
In satisfied and no refund
I signed up for the free trial, I was certain I removed my credit card information. But unfortunately I did not. I used muse score one time and quite frankly it’s not the platform for me. Upon request for a refund I was only offered a discount or an extension of the service. I explained I wouldn’t be using this product at all and it wasn’t fit for me. However no response after there initial offer is rather bullish. So instead of being concerned for the consumer they would rather take my money. So I’m giving a one star for customer service and customer satisfaction. I didn’t like the product, I made a simple mistake clearly, yet $50 is more important to them, then good customer relations. Maybe I would have signed I for a monthly subscription and given it another chance, however if my needs are not met. That won’t be happening.Show lessThecustomerIsAlwaysaRight
It’s actually good now.
I’m one of those people who’s never written a review for anything, and I was never going to. But MuseScore’s app changed at some point in a monumental way: where it used to be kind of clunky and hard to use because you couldn’t easily search for songs, or look at your favorites, you can do both of those things now! You can actually search for sheet music by genre and you can look through your favorites for easy access to the songs you like! I used to use the website instead because this app was almost useless in how slow it was without these changes, but now that it has these necessary features it’s way easier to use than the website, which is what an app’s all about! This app had a great turnaround with the newer updates, when most other apps would just stagnate in mediocre-ness. 👏🏼Show lessThe_Lemon_27
